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Protective coat surrounding nucleoid region of some bacteria – can withstand harsh conditions (endospore)
Thrive in very salty or saline conditions. (halophiles)
What is the process where the bacterial genome is changed by picking up “loose” DNA? (transformation)
What composes the cell walls of green algae (cellulose)
What domain contains the most primitive prokaryotes? (archaebacteria)
Spherical bacteria (coccus)
The cell walls of bacteria are made of this. (peptidoglycan)
Age of the Earth (4.6 billion years)
The transfer of DNA from one bacteria to another. (conjugation)
How do bacteria reproduce? (binary fission)
Clumped of bacteria (staph)
photosynthetic bacteria that created first oxygen, fix nitrogen for the marine life, and are also known as
blue-green algae (cyanobacteria)
Produce their own food. (autotroph)
“Appendage” of bacteria used to stick to things and transfer genetic material. (pili)
Theory that explains evolution of chlroplasts and mitochondria (endosymbiosis)
Age of first photosynthetic organisms (2.5 million years)
Fossils of first photosynthetic organisms (stromatolites)
Element not present in early atmosphere with its absence allowing for polymerization. (oxygen)
Bacteria living with the root nodules of legumes that can fix nitrogen (rhizobia)
Archaebacteria living in the guts of cows and swamps that lead to greenhouse gases (methanogens)
Domain with protista and fungi (eukarya)
Chemicals released by some bacteria that can cause problems like botulism (endotoxins)
Chemicals that can disrupt the cell wall of bacteria (antibiotics)
Type of symbiosis between rhizobia and root nodules (mutualism)
The kingdom including the bacteria (monera)
Technique used to identify bacteria by how thick their cell wall is and thus the amount of stain they absorb
(gram staining)
Bacteria found in the hot springs (thermophiles)
Descriptor of organisms that don’t move on their own (sessile)
The material that makes up the cell wall of bacteria (peptidoglycan)
The process that removes nitrogen from the air to create more complex molecules in the soil (nitrogen
fixation)
The original precursors to life that were aggregates of polymers that had some response to the environment
(protobionts)
Organisms that can use oxygen, but don’t have to (facultative aerobe)
Chains of bacteria (strep)
Cells that have no nuclear membrane (prokaryotic)
The idea that the cell membrane folded inward to engulf the DNA and form the ER, golgi and other
endomembrane system parts (autogeneous)
Person who predicted that conditions of early Earth favored spontaneous formation of polymers (oparin)
Organisms that make their own food without the sun (chemoautotrophs)
The type of symbiosis for E. coli and humans when they make us sick (parasitism)